Oh, Kindergarten. The things you hear! Today, a student thought we said grow when we actually meant glow (regarding glow-in-the-dark beads). This resulted in, "But what happens when the beads grow up?!" Too. Cute.
Unfortunately I didn't have too many more activities than yesterday because my student went home early as he was sick. Hopefully tomorrow he's feeling better!
Tonight the girls I'm staying with and myself were talking to our host, who is actually one of the principals at the school. We got into a conversation about how to adjust for cultural differences and how it would work best to involve parents more in their child's education.
After a while, we started to talk about the future for some of these kids. While many are likely legal residents (the school cannot ask for this information legally, so they do not know students' status), there are some undocumented students everywhere. While these students can do great in school and graduate at the top of their class, that is the end of the road for them. You can't go to college without a social security number. In our current world, it's difficult to have an economically stable life without having a college diploma. "The cure to cancer could be walking down our halls." But currently there is nothing they can do about it.
I'll be honest, I don't keep up on politics at all. But I know of the Dream Act and can only hope this will be passed in the near future. For a country that wants desperately to be at the top, our education system is not fighting hard enough.
"The cure to cancer could be walking down our halls." This is why I'm going to be an ESL teacher. If I come out of this field experience with nothing more than that, I will have had a fantastic experience.
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